> > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way
> > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL
> > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command.
> > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime]
> > to use fetch(3) for that purpose?
>
> This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play. Wget can be pretty
> much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval. Can
> also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the
> ports data packages.
>
But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't,
because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do
a wget -r ftp://webmaster:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/htdocs/tree, it will
create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to
that.
Leif
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